Reasonable

If you were to ask me, off the record, whether I knew what I was doing was wrong, I'd probably say yes. But let's face it--people love to bang the gavel with all this righteous gusto after the fact, and I think a lot of the backlash I'm receiving these days is from the media and news outlets spinning things as they always do.

In fact, if it weren't for that one article that the Daily published, I still think I'd be in office right now. A lot of kids that developed the disease--I forget what it's called, the CDC had this fancy name for it--were in Clark County, and everybody knows that's where all the low income and uneducated folks go to live in those rundown little ranches. Between you and me, I doubt there's a single one of my voters within a five-mile radius of that district...I had obligations, you know? When you see a check that'll pay for your entire campaign (not to mention your kid's tuition), what's a bit of extra waste into some small lake you've never seen?

Anyway, it doesn't matter now. I heard the new guy was able to pass the emergency funding proposal for the clean-up, so my guess is the water situation will be cleared up in no time. Like I said, I think this whole thing was blown out of proportion by the news--you can't tell me you wouldn't do the same thing in my position.